A young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is also isolating. Igor Memic’s Papatango New Writing Prize-winning debut play ‘Old Bridge’ opened at the Bush Theatre in a swirl of pink tafatta…

When I stood on my balcony on New Years Eve thinking about the year to come, of all the things I thought, predicted, hoped against hope 2021 might bring, theatre re-opening was certainly one. Singing along to Britney Spears’ TOXIC in a packed West End theatre was probably not. We can safely say by now…

Sequins. Lights. Rainbows. Happiness. Dancers. Wigs. Screaming (so much screaming.) More sequins. Lights that are rainbows. Tears. Hiding your tears behind your shiny teeth and shinier lipstick. Torch songs and hoe-downs. Grandmas. Glitter (so much glitter). And gentle kissing. Is the West End BACK, as the billboards and reviews shout? Despite Lloyd Webber’s amusing threats…

It’s a bit grandiose to suggest that theatre was reborn in Kennington last week, but the recent spate of tiny cultural lifeboats popping up in gardens, parks and courtyards all over the UK – of which LAMBCO Productions’ ‘Fanny and Stella’ is one of the more polished, and certainly the most fun – are perhaps…

Be More Chill, the viral teen sensation and Broadway phenomenon, has finally hit British shores. A simple tale of high school isolation, unrequited love, and evil Japanese computers… wait, what? This quintessentially American drama brings an original sci-fi twist to the teen angst genre. Appropriately since the script feels like it was computer generated by feeding a…

Confessional/autobiographical theatre has quickly become a mainstay of Vault Festival, and oceans of ink has been spilled debating the inherent problems of what is often mental self-evisceration/public group therapy masquerading as entertainment. That’s not to say that confessional theatre isn’t good, or entertaining. This year alone Vault has hosted astounding autobiographical or semi-autobiographical works about…

If the sound of Above the Stag’s revival of Peter Quilter’s seminal rom-com The Morning After (“a modern comedy about love, sex and relationships”) appeals but you are unable to make the trip to Vauxhall, I recommend dropping loads of acid and binge-watching every 70s sex-sitcom (sixt-com?) you can find. This is not a criticism…